Recent Numbered Memos

Significant changes pertaining to test performance or availability, or to Administrative functions within the McLendon Clinical Laboratories and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine are announced via departmental Numbered Memos which are distributed throughout the Hospitals and Health Care System.

These memos also will be made available at this site in Portable Document Format (.pdf files).

Immunology #23 September 20, 2024

Allergy Component Testing

Micro #238 September 9, 2024

Update to Bone Marrow Cultures

Core #213 September 5, 2024

NT-proBNP replaces BNP

Micro #237 July 29, 2024

Change to Tick-borne Illness Panel

Immunology #22 July 26, 2024

ANA Stewardship

Core #212 July 24, 2024

New Test Menu Option, Low Dose Dexamethasone Suppression Testing - Cortisol

Core #211 July 19, 2024

Resuming Anti-Fungal Testing in McLendon Clinical Laboratories

Micro #236 June 10, 2024

Changes to HIV Genotyping Test Orders

Core #210 June 10, 2024

Standardized Glucose Tolerance Testing in EPIC

Cytogenetics #1 April 25, 2024

Changes to LAB5505A (Cytogenetics, Constitutional Analysis) Order

Micro #235 April 25, 2024

Update to Fungal Antibody Order

Micro #234 April 19, 2024

Changes to Enterovirus Blood PCR Test

Core #209 April 17, 2024

Vitamin B12 Switch to Serum Only

Core #208 March 22, 2024

Resuming Point-of-Care HbA1c testing for Hospital-based Clinics

Immunology #21 March 18, 2024

Tick-borne Infection Testing

Micro #233 March 5, 2024

Changes to Hepatitis C Virus Genotyping Test

MolePath #40 March 4, 2024

APOE genotyping at UNC Medical Center

Micro #232 Feb 27, 2024

Changes to Hepatitis B virus DNA (Viral Load) Testing

TMS #75 Feb 26, 2024

STX Upgrade March 2024

Admin #89 Feb 22, 2024

Change in Directorship of Special Coagulation Laboratory

Core #206 Feb 22, 2024

Temporary Send Out of Anti-Fungal Testing

MolePath #39 Feb 9, 2024

Changes to molecular tests for myeloid malignancies at UNC

Core #205 Jan 26, 2024

Temporary cessation of Point-of-Care HbA1c testing

For listings of McLendon Clinical Laboratories & Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine numbered memos see Numbered Memo Archive. For Numbered Memos prior to January 1, 2008 - contact McLendon Clinical Laboratories Administration Office

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McLendon Clinical Laboratories
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Chapel Hill, NC 27514